Mack McFarland

Mack McFarland is an artist and has worked as Curator for Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, Oregon since 2006. Currently McFarland is the Director of the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA. Some of his exhibitions at PNCA have included commissioned projects of new works from tactical media practitioners Critical Art Ensemble, Eva and Franco Mattes, and Disorientalism. He has also curated a review of Luc Tuymans's printed works, a group exhibit marking the centennial of John Cage’s birth, and a comprehensive look at the process of the comic journalist Joe Sacco. McFarland’s currently questing how exhibitions and artworks can meaningfully link to our shared experience of existing together, and have a social and political impact within the ongoing process of history.